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coastal en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkəʊstəl/ (UK)
  • /ˈkoʊstəl/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree Latin costa Latin costicāreder. Old French costoierbor. Middle English costeien English coast Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- Proto-Indo-European *-is Proto-Indo-European *h₂élisder.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English coastal From coast + -al. Piecewise doublet of costal.

Meanings

  1. Relating to the coast; on or near the coast; longshore.
    • coastal elites
    • Another ANC splinter party, the uMkhonto weSizwe Party (MK), led by former President Jacob Zuma appears to be on course to do well in KwaZulu-Natal, the eastern coastal province where Durban is located. 2024 May 30, Sarah Dean and David McKenzie, “First results in South Africa’s election suggest it is heading for biggest political shift since apartheid”, in CNN, archived from the original on 14 May 2025:
    • coastal breeze
    • These included other Niphargus species from deep cave lakes and coastal anchihaline caves [23 ] and Gammarus and Echinogammarus amphipods that live only in permanently watered streams [21 ,24 ]. 2015 July 31, “Morphologically Cryptic Amphipod Species Are “Ecological Clones” at Regional but Not at Local Scale: A Case Study of Four Niphargus Species”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2022:
    • coastal town

Forms

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more coastal Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most coastal Degree=Sup lexicographic

Coordinates

littoral

Deriveds

coastally · Suffolk Coastal · coastal Premna · coastal waterfall · bicoastal · coastal strawberry · coastal elite · intracoastal · tricoastal · noncoastal · coastal moa · palaeocoastal · midcoastal · coastal waters · intercoastal · coastal grandmother · subcoastal · Coastal Andhra · coastal grandma

Hypernyms

aquatic · marine

Translations (38)

uk берегови́й (relating to the coast) · mr तटस्थ (relating to the coast) · ca costaner (relating to the coast) · ka სანაპირო (relating to the coast) · da kystnær (relating to the coast) · cy arfordirol (relating to the coast) · el παραλιακός (relating to the coast) · nb kystnær (relating to the coast) · uk прибере́жний (relating to the coast) · tr sahilsel (relating to the coast) · tr kıyısal (relating to the coast) · hi तटीय (relating to the coast) · sv kustsk (relating to the coast) · hu parti (relating to the coast) · mr किनारी (relating to the coast) · nn kystnær (relating to the coast) · zdj -a mpvwa (relating to the coast) · ca costal (relating to the coast) · es litoral (relating to the coast) · ca coster (relating to the coast) · ro costier (relating to the coast) · ru берегово́й (relating to the coast) · es costeño (relating to the coast) · it costiero (relating to the coast) · it litoraneo (relating to the coast) · it rivierasco (relating to the coast) · pt costeiro (relating to the coast) · hi तटवर्ती (relating to the coast) · fr côtier (relating to the coast) · el παράκτιος (relating to the coast) · de Küsten- (relating to the coast) · gl costeiro (relating to the coast) · sv kustnära (relating to the coast) · es costero (relating to the coast) · ru прибре́жный (relating to the coast) · es costanero (relating to the coast) · es costino (relating to the coast) · pl przybrzeżny (relating to the coast)